A challenge to Christians: Stop defending genocide

Can Christians stop supporting Old Testament genocide? Let's find out!

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[Chayraz2]

@ubermisogynist Did they commit genocide BECAUSE they where atheists?

Did Charles Darwin appear to them in a dream and tell them to wipe out an entire culture?

I don't think your statement has said enough at all.

[CBJAMPA]

@u0tube0video0critic And so are infidels (Israelites, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, you name it!) to Allah's people according to the Koran. Watch out! It only goes to show that religion is nothing but a double-edged sword. Any direction you swing it, it'll hurt people, including yourself.

[lilmizzserina]

So what you're saying is that modern genocide is terrible, but ancient genocide is alright and justifiable?

Moreover, talking over such ancient genocides is not done because we have a grudge, it is done because to this day, there are way too many people saying that this IS acceptable. And if you agree with an ancient genocide, there must be circumstances in the present where you would agree again. Such complacency and dogmatic blindness is terrifying, and has to be addressed.

[faithbyloving]

@Snitchybums As far as I am concerned, I have nothing to "get over". You may have, well obviously or you wouldn't have made the comment and asked me the question, which I have now answered for you.

Until you recognise the Foreknowledge of God and the Prophetic nature of the Bible you will not be able to understand the answer to your question.

[faithbyloving]

@Snitchybums I hope you see my point, some people focus their vengeance on an ancient historical & relatively small event they don't understand, yet have little time or interest or concern for an event like the Sudan genocide. It leads one to inevitably question the motives of someone who is angry about a historical event in ancient Israel, yet the same person sits in their armchair at home enjoying eating their food while pictures of horrendous genocide flash past their eyes on the TV screen!

[faithbyloving]

@Snitchybums I might also add that in the recent genocide in Sudan, children were not only killed but they were raped and mutilated while still alive, with hands, arms, legs hacked off with machetes. some were burned alive. Sudanese women who were pregnant had their wombs hacked open with machetes, killing the baby inside...but how angry have you been about this since this began happening since 2004?

[Snitchybums]

@faithbyloving People are going to judge someone that puts children to death. Get over it.

[faithbyloving]

@Snitchybums & just to add a further thought, how much outrage are you demonstrating against the hanging of homosexuals & lesbians in Iran? I make this point because it has to be said that there are people whose content with the Bible and God is one of outrage against a long past historical event that they don't understand, but when it comes to even worse events and even in our own day, they flash past their view on the TV screen & the same people have no interest in it!! (known has hypocrisy)

[faithbyloving]

@Snitchybums You should also put this whole historical event into the proper context of World History. This event however, tragic was by any account, a relatively small one, insignificant in numbers, compared to events of this nature some in their millions, taking place over the last 3000 yrs, even to the 21 Century! eg Sudan and genocide against south Sudanese Christians by muslim arabs. Yet how much outrage do you have about that the genocide in Sudan?

[faithbyloving]

@Snitchybums I realise that this will challenge your thinking and you will probably not accept this, but you did ask, so that is my answer and I believe it is the correct one.

(The alternative for God was to wait for those children to grow up and destroy Israel, since God knew that was exactly what they would do. But then you might say, "Wait! that's not fair! If God knew those children would do that as adults why didn't he stop them?? )

[faithbyloving]

@Snitchybums Because God knows the Future, He is unique in His decision making, in that in this case, he knew that those children would one day attack Israel and be a threat to Israel. (I know, you will jump in immediately and say 'but that's not fair, they're innocent, so far they haven't done anything! It's not right!) Yes, I know, but in God's Future knowledge, they are Guilty!

[faithbyloving]

@Snitchybums To resign to the judgement that many people would today, ie that it was "genocide" and "evil", is clearly to completely misinterpret the scripture here, so what was the reason? In the context of this history, God had already prepared a way for the Israelites to live in their own land peacefully. However to get there, they had to fight for it, or die in the wilderness. Sometimes 'defence' necessitates attacking! God knows "The End from the Beginning" - he knows the Future.